do you have to know the greek alphabet to join a sorority/fraternity?

We learned the Greek ALPHAbet by singing it as a ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA chant.

No, you don't. However, learning it may very well be a part of your education/pledge process. It's not hard to learn though, after all you learned the arabic (i think that's what it is anyway) alphabet and it has 2 more letters! I don't know the greek alphabet in order, but i can name all the letters, mostly just from the chapters on campus! Plus each one of our officers has a greek letter as the name, Alpha=pres, Beta=VP, etc. I'm Rho-Alumni Chair

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[This message has been edited by Corbin Dallas (edited August 07, 2000).]

Try learning it in groups of 5. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon...etc.

I'm agreeing with everyone who learned the alphabet by singing. My 5th grade teacher sung the alphabet to us & to this day I can still sing it.

This website has both upper & lower case forms of each word including there English name: http://www.msoe.edu/~tritt/greeklr.html

I just wanted to post an update: I did finally learn the alphabet; ironically just days after my intial post http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif. I want to thank everyone for their pointers, have a nice day.

http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif HumbleBumbleBee http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Soror AKA2D:

Are you thinking of the same thing I am? As Ivies, we had song that I loved (still do) in which we sung all the letters, then ended with a special AKA-specific part. :-)

DG

yep...that's the one....I sing it all the time, but we changed the words after we crossed...

SSSSSSKKKKKEEEEEEE-WWWWWWWEEEEEE!

I always heard that since Alpha Phi was a sorority, Phi was pronounced Fee because it was in the feminine tense. Also, I never know how Phi Mu's want their name pronounced. Fi Moo or Fi Mew...

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RM

I had a really hard time remembering the Greek alphabet also. It might be helpful to make up some kind of song that would trigger your memory. That's how my pledges made 100's on their quizzes.

Ooops! I didn't realize you already had given that advice!

When I was a pledge of another Fraternity, I found if you did it in 3's it came easier. Alpha, Beta, Gamma Pause Delta, Epslilon Zeta ETC. The mind is a wonderful computor unless it has a glitch then is not worth a Damn as Boat anchor!!!



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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Free Greek Alphabet song
 

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=41885

Greek Alphabet song!!!

An easy way to memorize all the letters to a tune you already know.

HAHAHA. I would venture to say that they don't want to be called Phi Moo.